Materials and Method From November 1998 to July 2005, 105 patients who failed conservative treatment for thoracic outlet syndrome underwent 131 procedures for thoracic outlet decompression. Eighty ...

Coote performed the first surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome in 1863 for an exotosis of a cervical vertebra. [7] Murphy was the first to introduce the removal of the first rib to decompress the ...

Two studies published in JACC on June 16 provide new insights on arterial events associated with heritable thoracic aortic disease (TAD) and the relative risk in patients with pathogenic variants (PVs ...